Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

When Fianna Fáil was in Government and it was addressing this issue it did not use objective criteria. Its scheme was based on random collection of information. Political information was also brought to bear, which was not satisfactory. The current scheme is transparent. I have just explained to the Deputy how it is put together. In other words, the children in the school and their home addresses are taken in conjunction with the deprivation index, which is used widely, to assess a location. That is the composite index.

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